Existing Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) customers are being transitioned by the our transition team to Microsoft Office 365. During this transition the Microsoft Transition team will move all existing BPOS SharePoint Online...

More and more people are looking at sharing or storing Word documents in the cloud, be it the Microsoft cloud or other vendors cloud, e.g. Google Documents. Of course it is important that an existing Word documents from a users desktop look identical...

Microsoft is the first and only major cloud productivity provider to have ISO 27001 certification, EU Model Clauses (a robust Data Processing Agreement) and HIPAA compliance. The new white paper " Privacy in the Public Cloud: The Office 365 Approach...

Sometimes you might find yourself in a situation without your own PC and you need to book an online meeting asap. Microsoft Lync Online Web Scheduler is a web-based meeting scheduling and management tool for users who don’t have access to Microsoft...

Office 365 for professionals and small businesses (P1 plan) customers are currently limited to managing their users in the Office 365 Admin Interface. The Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool - only available to E plan users - is...

Microsoft Lync 2010 for Windows Phone (a.k.a. Lync Mobile) just released - get it here If you want to have a play with Lync Mobile then we haven’t quite setup the DNS records yet (or they are still propagating round the internet). So while...

You probably heard by now. Office 2003 isn’t on the supported software list for Office 365. We suggest that all Office 2003 customers upgrade to Office Pro Plus a.k.a. OPP which is the subscription based version of Office 2010 (or purchase Office...

Finding it difficult to navigate the various service plans in Office 365 - deciding which one fits your needs? Microsoft has released an Office 365 Advisor tool that will recommend a plan for you, based on your answers to simple questions, e.g....

Maximize Your Cloud Opportunity! Show your customers what Office 365 can do for their business. Attend this technical overview and learn how to demo Office 365 and utilize the Demo Provisioning Toolkit (see below) to engage your customers and close...

One of the benefits of being a “ Microsoft Cloud Accelerate ” partner is the ability to offer delegated administration right from within your own Office 365 tenant. Delegated administration is you administrering a company account on behalf...

If you are licensed for Office Pro Plus (OPP) in your Office 365 license, you are allowed to install Office Professional Plus on up to five simultaneous machines. But what if you lose count and try to install/activate Office Professional Plus on a...

Today we released the first major service update to Office 365. Amongst other things this is our first update to SharePoint Online (SPO) since the launch of Office 365 and we thought it would be a good time to share information about the new features...

We often get the question: "For Office 365 organizations in a hybrid Exchange deployment (some users on-premises, some users in Exchange Online), what Free/Busy viewing and Calendar sharing options are available?" In the below table you'll see whats...

Many are asking if they can make use of centralized auto signatures in Exchange Online in Office 365. The answer is yes - and its done using Disclaimers . To automatically apply disclaimers to e-mail messages, you use Transport Rules . You create Transport...

As described in an earlier blog post SharePoint Online comes with a very useful template "Express Team Site", from which you can easily fire up Office documents by clicking the built in icons (see below). Default behavior is that the document opens in...

The long awaited Business Connectivity Services has entered our Office 365 E3 (and E4) tenants. Business Connectivity Services bridges the gap between SharePoint sites and other web services, databases, and external business applications. It enables...

Did you know – SharePoint Online in Office 365 comes with a site template called “Express Team Site”. It’s a very fast and snappy way to get at team site up and running. And best of all: the preconfigured document library “Documents”...

Many customers who have implemented our federated SSO feature have asked us to enable more control over external access based on the location of the client e.g. limit access to Microsoft Office 365 services, depending on where the client (trying to access...

Many potential customers are asking about departmental mailboxes in Office 365. How can a department, a team etc share a mailbox, and does it involve a license? Shared mailboxes in Office 365 Exchange Online allow a group of users to view and send...

In Office 365 your password will expire every 90 days (unless your admin has changed the policy). If you are using Outlook Web App (or other online apps), you'll receive directions to change your password when it is about to expire or has expired. But...

To discourage users from sending unsolicited bulk messages, Exchange Online has restrictions that prevent users and applications from sending large volumes of email. Customers who send a lot of e-mails will need to understand the limits to how many messages...

If you think the answer to the question "Is Office 365 more expensive than Google Apps" is "Yes" (and many people do), you might want to read this white paper . You'll find that many of the elements included in the Office 365 service (e.g AV/AS) is extras...

Getting started as an Office 365 partner is easy - especially if you know where to find the right information. I've compiled the resources I find relevant in an easy read document intended to help MPN partners get started with Office 365. Most of the...

If you are considering moving you data and documents to Office 365, you might wonder how you can perform the reverse operation - move data from Microsoft Online Services to file shares or to a local computer (called off-boarding). In this version of Microsoft...

I often get asked if its possible to map a SharePoint Online Document Library in Windows Explorer e.g. for easy opening of files a.s.o directly from Windows Explorer. It is certainly possible: Create a Document Library - in this example called ...